Special and additional needs and disabilities: an essential guide

This text supports teachers, students, other educators and families to deepen their understanding of the special educational, additional support, and learning needs of children and young people and effective ways to address these needs. The text offers up to date overviews of legislation, including the various Codes of Practice, across the U.K.. Chapters on key areas of need within Early Years settings, schools and colleges will enable readers to address barriers to learning and behaviour from a confident, well-informed position. The book translates theory into practice through illustrative case studies and suggestions for practical activities and threads learning and teaching points throughout the text to encourage readers students to think critically about how to manage particular issues. This book offers firstly a critical edge of understanding of how and why the statutory rights and entitlements of young people with special and/or additional learning and support needs and disabilities and their families, and the accountabilities of teachers, educational institutions and local authorities in meeting needs, have been extended over the years. Secondly it is intended to support educators to carry out their duties, and young people and their families to know what they might reasonably expect from others, from a thoughtful, confident position that is very well-informed in practice, theory and critical understanding of the issues in the field.